New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-14
NETWORK MUSICIANS.
WHERE THEY 90 AND HOW THEY LIVE.

WHERE THEY GO AND HOW TnEi LIVE
"what becomes Of tho MUSICIANS m summer
A synpsshesio individual at the Aseeenbroeoe
MN s,~bed n The question put to him. and In
COMMUNICATING tone replied: "They are having
hard time this year. The excise law Is to blame
We uight have had concerto In the Central PARK
Garden this summer we had last, but there's NO
use trying 1t II beer IL not to BE- sold You can't
expect people to drink sarsaparula and lcmonaoo
all evening and ruin their stomacha"
A scientific man of the modern school would have
been tempted to think that this conviction OF the
tnterdeI cndence Of music and beer was duo TO the
clubman's environment Tho Aschonbrociei Ciuo IL
situated In East Fourth St., where the air Is always
redoIent extract Of matt and cocculus indcus
Whom the inquiry prosecuted further uptown
different answers were obtained g. Bernstein wno
plays the kettledrums at tho Metropolitan opera
House and turns many an honest penny oesiooS W
engaging orchesras for Mr. Van der stnckeh anu
othor conductors talked In an entirely dineon' Ay
"Good musicians have never been 90 haru W nnu
In summer a. this year" he said, and recoun'eo ni'
adventures met In pursuing the elusive trombone ano
ecetng nute He seemed, too, to have tho oetter VI
tho argument for the number VI musicAn' "no ~0
employed in and around the city THIS sumuef Is eA
ceedingly largo. Tho mon who play wagner anu
Beethoven In the winter aoaps themselves :" .Ao
changed conditions Of tho heated spell anp play
strauss and Ofenbach In tho summer. There Is less
demand for the players Of stringed Instruments, II
is true they ni-adaptcd TO outo-ooor music
but nearly every vioinist is familiar with some In
strument Of the wind tribe and when the season OF
opera and symphony 10 over, he rubs up tarnisheo
alto horn or E-nat clarinet and s ready for another
season Of less noble but almost equally remuneratve
employment.
New-York contains about 300 orchestral players
capable of taking part In musical performances VI
the highest class Mr.. ThOmas's orchestra at the
festival IN the 7th Regiment Armory In 1852 coh-
tanned 900 players and DIR. Damrosch's OF the year
preyious $50 In both cases musicians were brought
fiom other cities because II was, Of course, impos-
sible to command the services Ut all the capaoie
players In New York for these monster occasiohs'
but there the number mentioned OF good orches-
trail musicians In the city. Counting all the mem
bers Of military bands, theatrical orchostfas, makers
of dance music and Others In humber walks Of the
art tho musical population foots up over 5000. IL
is doubtful whether any city in the world contains
so many musicians as New-York, Or pays the ootter
class Of WELL Many make sufficient money
during the regular season Of nine months, from
September to June, to enable them to devote the
summer to rest and relaxation. Dozens OF the
leading players go to Germany in tho summer " 70
visit their old homes for the vast majority of the
professional musicians Of America are Germans by
birth Nauvo-born Americans have not yet como
to look on music means VI livelihood
brief enumeration will account for the summer
occupation Of large number Of the band players.
Mr. Thomas has kept his orchestra intact during the
summer for years by the help Of out-Otown engage
ments. Chicago now does for him what the famous
concert, In the Central Park Garden used ~ do No
orchestra ever did amount Of work comparable
with that performed by Mr. Thomas and his men Id
the season which began in September and ended only
two weeks ago. Next week new order Ut WORK
viii be entered on In Chicago There viii be no
more travelling for five weeks, but Instead nightly
concerts Ut y popular chaI acter. Then Will come
the longedfor and needed period Of rest and recu-
peration for next The orchestra at the
Metropolitan Opera House is unit only In the
representations Of German opera and the concerts OF
tho Symphony Society, though tho majority VI us
members also active In the concerts conducted
by Mr. Van Stucken and Mr.. Seidi. During this
summer, however, forty-hve musicians, nearly all
members Ut the Metropolitan band are EN- 10y cd al
Hotel Brighton Coney Island. Mr.. Van der stucAens
of five concerts to DO given next week before the
meeting Of the Musio-T National Association
at Indianapolis At Long Branch Is an orchestra VI
twelve pieces supplied by Mr.. Bernstein, which ON
SUNDAYS /. Increased TO twenty. The orchestras at
main intact Tho Philharmonic Club under the
leadership Of Richard Arnold is giving concerts In
This covers the orchestral field. The military
hands ALWAYS have plenty to do In summer. Gil
more's band Of sixty-hve pieces 10 at Manhattan
Beach; Conternos IL playing at Terrace Garden
and In the parks; foryfve men arc In camp AT
PeekskiIl: twenty-five are at Glen Island ana the
same number on Staten Island with the Fan OF
Rabvlon show Manfestly New-York musicians VIII
eurytve the summer season